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Orv
May 4, 2011

Attention Horse posted:

Is it possible to unlock P416, ACE and other missing weapons in singleplayer? I know they're in MP and COOP, but they're not even on the list in SP.

2nd island, same deal as FC2.

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Red Mundus
Oct 22, 2010
Weird question: How mysterious is the game?

Are there any x-files like parts to it? Things that happen but don't seem to make any sense and are never really fully explained.

I don't know why, but I would love to play a game where stuff like that happens. The closest games I can think of that do this is Just Cause 2 and Xenus II: White Gold.

Orv
May 4, 2011

Red Mundus posted:

Weird question: How mysterious is the game?

Are there any x-files like parts to it? Things that happen but don't seem to make any sense and are never really fully explained.

I don't know why, but I would love to play a game where stuff like that happens. The closest games I can think of that do this is Just Cause 2 and Xenus II: White Gold.

Hahahahah, yeah, you'll get plenty of that.





This game does not deserve to have such good characterization. I realize it's not a tech demo or a throwaway like Crysis was, but these are some of the most, well, not fleshed out, but realized characters I've seen in video games in a while.

WastedJoker
Oct 29, 2011

Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.
Having to run through that opening sequence again because somehow I've lost my save games with 5/6hrs game time on them.

I've got saves located here:

C:\ProgramData\Orbit\46

but uplay seems to want to use the ones located here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\6a1d2710-16bb-491e-a199-0893115924ef\46

They use different file formats :psyduck:

any idea how I can get them talking to each other? I really don't want to have to re-do the opening 45 mins of unskippable cutscenes.

real_scud
Sep 5, 2002

One of these days these elbows are gonna walk all over you

Attention Horse posted:

Is it possible to unlock P416, ACE and other missing weapons in singleplayer? I know they're in MP and COOP, but they're not even on the list in SP.
Yes, you can get more guns than are originally visible for each category of gun-type.

Goddamnit e:f,b

Books On Tape
Dec 26, 2003

Future of the franchise
Just looted a Rusty Trombone. :allears:

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
Anyone in the US able to buy this for me on Steam? I'll be able to paypal you the money.

Diesel Fucker
Aug 14, 2003

I spent my rent money on tentacle porn.
Is the music that plays when you tell (Agnes?) is it? The girl with the mushrooms. about your brother on the soundtrack? It's a great little track.

Orv
May 4, 2011

Lasher posted:

Is the music that plays when you tell (Agnes?) is it? The girl with the mushrooms. about your brother on the soundtrack? It's a great little track.

Is it the 4-note piano and triangle one? E: If you can get me a YT video or something I can do more than a cursory check, I don't remember the music. I believe a goon streamed it earlier.




Oh sandbox games. When Hoyt sets the guy in the cage on fire, an ambient NPC line fired at the exact same time that said "I could use a cold one."

Orv fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Nov 30, 2012

Books On Tape
Dec 26, 2003

Future of the franchise
Just Cause 2 has ruined me for open world games. I open the map in FC3 and I'm just not impressed at all, assuming that the map ends up being about as big as the little icons spread around indicate.

Diesel Fucker
Aug 14, 2003

I spent my rent money on tentacle porn.

Orv posted:

Is it the 4-note piano and triangle one? E: If you can get me a YT video or something I can do more than a cursory check, I don't remember the music. I believe a goon streamed it earlier.

Sure,
http://youtu.be/VPAVLb2hVps?t=19m14s

Reminds me of God Is An Astronaut a bit.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)

jerkstore77 posted:

Just Cause 2 has ruined me for open world games. I open the map in FC3 and I'm just not impressed at all, assuming that the map ends up being about as big as the little icons spread around indicate.

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it ;-*

Hotwire
Mar 11, 2006

hehehe

Lasher posted:

Sure,
http://youtu.be/VPAVLb2hVps?t=19m14s

Reminds me of God Is An Astronaut a bit.

It's track 5 on the extras. 'Falling into a Dream.'

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8ptfplj5dh3dal1

Not sure if that counts as files. Yell at me, mods, if it does.

Hotwire fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Nov 30, 2012

Orv
May 4, 2011

Lasher posted:

Sure,
http://youtu.be/VPAVLb2hVps?t=19m14s

Reminds me of God Is An Astronaut a bit.

I was right, it is 'Falling Into a Dream'.


Here's the soundtrack version on YT.




e;fb like mad.

Diesel Fucker
Aug 14, 2003

I spent my rent money on tentacle porn.
Cheers for that!

I think this is one of the few open world games where I feel overwhelmed but confident enough to just dive right in. There's just so much to it, but I'll be damned if anything is getting between me and some Boar hide. I need my extra ammo pouches!

edit: If I have one complaint it's trying to find the sweet spot between looting a body and swapping weapons.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
You know what this game is missing? The in‐universe map from the last game.

WastedJoker
Oct 29, 2011

Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.
Meh gently caress this game.

I'm gonna uninstall it.

Can't be arsed replaying the game again just because uplay decides to randomly delete my savegames despite there appearing to be a perfectly usable one in another location.

Diesel Fucker
Aug 14, 2003

I spent my rent money on tentacle porn.

Platystemon posted:

You know what this game is missing? The in‐universe map from the last game.

I thought I missed the tutorial on how to view it because in the cars there's clearly a map tucked into the sun shield above the driving seat or a little book on the dashboard.

Adraeus
Jan 25, 2008

by Y Kant Ozma Post
Don't ever use PureVPN for VPN services. Their service did not work with Steam, so I tried to close my account and get a refund for the who-cares amount of $7.96. They're refusing to provide a refund.

PureVPN posted:

It is to inform you that you were on chat and told in detail that we offer Dedicated IP of only 4 countries i.e. UK, US, Canada and Germany and then you confirmed to issue German Dedicated (chat may also be forwarded if you need). Also the steam is also working with Shared IP. So there is no justification that you need only Australian Dedicated IP. Thus, we will not be able to refund you.

Regards,
Manager Customer Service & Support
PureVPN

They're talking about Dedicated IP because one of their support reps said I needed a Dedicated IP to connect to Steam and a Dedicated IP would not cost extra. They lied. I also never asked for a German Dedicated IP, and I explicitly said that I needed to use the Australian server. They, of course, don't believe me.

Here's my response.

Adraeus posted:

Who said anything about German Dedicated IP? I certainly did not. Perhaps you should actually read the chat log. Furthermore, it was one of your representatives who suggested a Dedicated IP and told me that a Dedicated IP would be free, which was not the case. I do not need a Dedicated IP. This was made clear by the fact that VPNSecure.Me works just fine out of the box without one. What I need is you to be reasonable, close my account, and refund me for $7.96. Please tell me that GZ Systems Ltd. can afford that.

That said, I kindly asked for a refund, which you are refusing to provide. I have started the dispute process with PayPal, which I will escalate as needed. I'm sure this process will cost you more than $7.96 over the long run, but to each his own. I'm sure your superior will appreciate you expending so much time and effort to avoid refunding an unsatisfied customer for $7.96. This is after all what you do with your day.

I was going to end with the punchier "your college education is certainly paying off" but I'm not sure whoever's responding has one.

Infinite Monkeys
Jul 18, 2010

If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
I should be able to run this fine but I'm getting a low framerate (PC), does anyone know if there are any specific settings that affect FPS majorly or do I just need to run it on Low?
e: Turned fraps on for the framerate counter and I'm consistently getting ~30fps, it just looks kinda jerky for some reason :iiam:

Infinite Monkeys fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Nov 30, 2012

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

If you have an Nvidia card, the latest beta driver is designed to perform for this game. It would be version 310.64.

Bloodmobile
Jun 15, 2012
So the matchmaking is completely busted in PC multiplayer, no big surprises there. It either doesn't find any games or puts you in lobby purgatory into a full game that never starts.

1337_CroniX
Nov 22, 2005
The Warrior Of Ruin
What difficulty do you guys recommend starting the single player on?

Adraeus
Jan 25, 2008

by Y Kant Ozma Post

1337_CroniX posted:

What difficulty do you guys recommend starting the single player on?

Hard. I start every other game on Very Easy or Easy, but Hard is great in this game. I want Very Hard; unfortunately, we'll have to wait for gibbed to figure out how to mod the game and I imagine that he's busy playing right now.

Attention Horse
Jan 5, 2012

Yo man, you are out of step with Imhotep!
So is my HDR/Bloom completely broken or is it intentional?

Red Mundus
Oct 22, 2010
At this point I find smaller maps to be a plus. Too many game devs give you all this land and then barely fill any of it. Of course, too small and you start to get tired of seeing the same landmarks and terrain over again. Risen felt that way to me.

Bloodmobile
Jun 15, 2012

1337_CroniX posted:

What difficulty do you guys recommend starting the single player on?

Hard if you want a very slight challenge, hard without crafting any medkits if you want a proper one.

Red Mundus
Oct 22, 2010
Is it possible to snap your bones back in place to regain full health or do you need to use a syringe or med-kit to do so?

I know in FC2 if your health dropped too low you could snap things in place to regain some health but needed a syringe to get the rest of your health back.

Infinite Monkeys
Jul 18, 2010

If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

Cavauro posted:

If you have an Nvidia card, the latest beta driver is designed to perform for this game. It would be version 310.64.
AMD but the latest beta drivers helped a lot, thanks!

az
Dec 2, 2005

Adraeus posted:

Hard. I start every other game on Very Easy or Easy, but Hard is great in this game. I want Very Hard; unfortunately, we'll have to wait for gibbed to figure out how to mod the game and I imagine that he's busy playing right now.

The first thing that has to be modded difficulty wise is more redshirts, more redshirts everywhere.

Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

Attention Horse posted:

So is my HDR/Bloom completely broken or is it intentional?



Yeah, the game's bright but it's not that bright :v:

Bloodmobile
Jun 15, 2012

az posted:

The first thing that has to be modded difficulty wise is more redshirts, more redshirts everywhere.

A mod to keep the enemy patrols after clearing an outpost would be excellent. After that, one that makes the regular enemies change their position every time after firing would be really good as well.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

Red Mundus posted:

Is it possible to snap your bones back in place to regain full health or do you need to use a syringe or med-kit to do so?

I know in FC2 if your health dropped too low you could snap things in place to regain some health but needed a syringe to get the rest of your health back.

You need to invest a skill point to do that this time around.

Orv
May 4, 2011

Red Mundus posted:

Is it possible to snap your bones back in place to regain full health or do you need to use a syringe or med-kit to do so?

I know in FC2 if your health dropped too low you could snap things in place to regain some health but needed a syringe to get the rest of your health back.

If you're out of syringes you can just first aide yourself back to full.

Attention Horse
Jan 5, 2012

Yo man, you are out of step with Imhotep!
It's like the Sun is going supernova, what is going on :stare:. From time to time my game will just turn on this ridiculous bloom effect and I can't see poo poo. No idea how to get rid of it.



edit: I alt-tabbed back into the game and the effect is gone. Maybe that's the way to get rid of it.

Red Mundus
Oct 22, 2010
Awesome, in that case I won't even bother with syringes. :unsmigghh:

Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

Is there any HDR/bloom effect in the advanced video options that you can turn off? What kind of card do you have and what drivers are you running?

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

Wassup, Choom?
Ya need sumthin'?

Blast of Confetti posted:

I saw a 10 minute video of some chubby sounding Swedish guy screaming about redneck hunting while he tried to drive over a boar for his first quest. Basically what I'm saying is that now I need this game.

Robbaz :allears:


I messed around with the editor for a bit to make a bowl full of animals to get in fights with. Ended up filling it with barrels and jeeps and started flinging grenades.

Adraeus
Jan 25, 2008

by Y Kant Ozma Post

Bloodmobile posted:

A mod to keep the enemy patrols after clearing an outpost would be excellent. After that, one that makes the regular enemies change their position every time after firing would be really good as well.

I would also like:

- No menu prompts
- Stackable items
- A "switch/roll to cover" feature
- A walk speed and toggle
- Limited stamina for sprinting
- Enemies trying to retake outposts
- Enemies retaking outposts
- More dangerous wildlife
- A bow that's not so hard to shoot accurately
- Knife throwing outside the minigame
- Improved skill trees and more skills
- Better pacing for skill points
- More interactive geometry for climbing/parkour

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Orv
May 4, 2011

Adraeus posted:

I would also like:

I doubt most of that could actually be modded, but hey, maybe I'm wrong. Some of that would be pretty great.

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